…I wonder why that’s almost all I talk about. And then I look at my schedule for a week and realize I’m breathing wood dust and nail putty for four days, paying house bills a few hours another day, shopping for countertops, lighting, flooring and window treatments another one or two days and with the time that’s left I’m at home — washing clothes that are caked with sawdust and mud or cleaning floors that show evidence of another muddy location other than home. I wonder why.<\/p>\n
So since I like to talk about the house, let me just tell you that I am so excited! If we had some bathroom fixtures I think I’d be tempted to move in. Well, ok, not quite. It’s pretty filthy in there. I have puttied nail holes until my finger was nearly purple, sanded until my arms refused to move, and last night caulked as late as I dared knowing that there was a dryer on the back of David Lee’s truck that we needed to unload and a two year old to get to bed in reasonable time. After today, I should have TWO rooms ready to paint trim. I am so excited I am almost jumping up and down. I can hardly wait to see what the trim looks like with a coat of white dove as opposed to stark white primer. And every time I go out there, I have to first just walk around and look! No wonder my husband loves finish carpentry! Trim is truly a big part of what makes a house beautiful. My mom is coming to help me paint tomorrow and I am even more excited about that. I must admit, I am a people person and it gets a little bit lonely being out there day after day by myself. <\/p>\n
Oh yes, one more thing besides house talk (wow!). Last week Ronnie Miller spoke at our Winter Bible School … highly inspirational and motivating. Saturday night we had a separate women’s talk \/ sharetime about becoming a woman of God. Afterwards Louise and I started talking and I found it highly comforting to hear a middle-aged woman I consider Godly express my thoughts in words. So many times when a woman talks about submitting to our husbands, especially when they share concrete examples, I find myself shivering inside. As Louise put it so well, “if there is no friction, does that mean I am in submission or is there a chance I do not know my own heart?” In other words, am I one of those women who stomps all over their husband and has no idea she’s doing it? Oh yes, I know a little bit about submission … we’ve had a few big issues. All women seem to have the big issues. It’s the little issues that women talk about … like your husband calls home and wants you to fax something right away or he needs you to run to town for xyz right now and it’s the baby’s naptime or my husband doesn’t like for me to get involved in this or he doesn’t like when I do that and then they go on to talk about how we need to be sweetly submissive. That never happens to me. I simply don’t have this list of things my husband asks me to do that are difficult for me to accept. My husband always says things like this, “hey I need a fax sent to whereever when you get a minute today” or do you think it would work for you to… He considers my schedule as important as his and I don’t think he’s ever asked me to “do something now” w\/o first finding out what I have going at the moment. I could list quite a number of other areas (like the way he encourages and supports my dreams and visions, too or the way we have similar tastes and convictions); but I think I’ll stop. Louise and I discovered we both have flexibe, somewhat laid-back husbands. They don’t have strong preferences about how things HAVE to be and about what needs to go now. When I got home and talked to David Lee about it he laughed and said, “So is it an issue of the wife submitting to her husband or is the husband not loving his wife?” My thoughts precisely. I know this is probably a heated subject and, as in parenting, I think there is more than one way of “right.” What is right for you as a couple, may not be right for another couple. But I’m still curious what other people think. Louise and I both laughed in agreement at the end of our conversation when I said, “just watch, in two weeks we’re probably going to get this HUGE issue!” So now, I’m curious. Are we just a very close match for each other in this area or am I missing something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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